B&W Fine Art Photography
B&W Fine Art Photography
This lens gets a lot of bad press. From the moment its younger sibling, the FLE version, hit the shelves the older version became regarded automatically almost as if it were trash. Don’t get me wrong, the CF FLE is better, just look at the MTF charts. The FLE has two more elements – 9 vs …
An Hasselblad is a terrific camera for portraits – well, for almost everything really. But if you want to shoot with a flash, connecting the syncro cable to the lens, you will be left with no place to put the wireless remote trigger body – because you are using the flash off-camera, right? (If not: …
I don’t know if I have to explain this…the picture pretty much speaks by itself. Anyway: 1) pick a 5 euro cents coin 2) using a stepped bit – easier – or a normal bit drill a hole in the center 3) pass a piece of cord trough the hole and make a node creating …
When you buy an used camera, especially a very old one, chances are that the focus will be out of whack. Sometime it will be off just a bit, other times a lot. The procedure to adjust it varies from camera to camera, but in every case you will have to find a suitable target …
Like I reported in the previous post Battle of the 50s, the two Pentax Takumar currently I own, both 50mm f/1.4, behave in a striking different way regarding the depth of field at any given aperture. The 8-elements in particular exhibit a much more extended sharp field, compared to its sibling. This gives to it …
Today we’ll talk about an old timer, the Nikkor 20mm f/3,5 UD. It is a pre-Ai (or non-Ai, if you prefer) lens from the late ’60, and it certainly shows. It is beautifully crafted, something you have to handle to fully appreciate it. Even the lens cap is amazing: a single piece of what I …